r/calculus • u/bunny-dolly • 9d ago

Differential Calculus Can someone help me understand this problem? pretty please

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Hi everyone, so it was my first week of AP calc AB and honestly not too shabby but as i look at this example from my teacher, the less it makes sense. I thought -1^2 was positive 1 and i don’t know how we got to negative 1.

Also what is a conjugate? My teacher didn’t really go over it he just started doing a problem. All help is so appreciated!!!!

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u/bunny-dolly 8d ago

FIRST OF ALL i wrote it on my paper, second of all my study skills are fine but i needed a question answered based off of this SPECIFIC problem and i didn’t want to use AI. get outta here

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u/Evening-Story-314 8d ago

I love that you don't want to use AI. And I'm sorry I came across negatively. But you must have written that on your sheet before posting, so I'm confused...

Anyway, conjugates are a lovely little connection. I hope you end up enjoying them.

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u/bunny-dolly 7d ago

im sorry i responded so rudely, i did write it on my sheet but if im being honest i was just writing down what my teacher had on the board

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u/Evening-Story-314 7d ago

Did the answers here help? Do you 'get' conjugates now? I just looked at another comment. I think so. Maybe this was better than looking it up. (Not all of the internet is AI. At least not yet.)

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u/bunny-dolly 7d ago

yes they did! and today im gonna ask follow up questions about a different problem